Schools Stage Play Battle At Pbjc

February 17, 1986|By Carol Brzozwski, Staff writer

Palm Beach Junior College will be the site of a battle of the casts beginning at 9 a.m. Thursday when six area high schools and the Palm Beach Junior College Players present one-act plays and excerpts from longer plays.

Randolph deLago, artistic director of the Delray Beach Playhouse, will be the guest judge at the 12th Annual Palm Beach Junior College Drama Festival, which will take place in the Student Activities Center Lounge on the central campus in Lake Worth.

The judges will select the best plays, which will then be presented to the public Friday and Saturday in the lounge. Admission is free.

A special feature of the festival will be a performance by the Palm Beach Junior College Players of an original play titled Signal 20, written by Robert Goodrich, a PBJC drama major. It will be presented at 2:30 p.m. Thursday.

As a nurse in oncology -- the field of cancer -- Langdon encounters much grief and heartache on her job.

But she always manages to do her job cheerfully and without complaint.

She also takes time after work to visit the homes of the cancer patients and help them with housework -- all on her own time.

For this, Langdon has been given the Kate Smith Humanitarian Award, created in memory of a nurse who died two years ago. The award is given after peers nominate a hands-on care-giver, which Smith was in her 38 years of nursing.

The winner must emulate the qualities of Smith: selflessness, total devotion to a cause, the ability to move others to take action and a lack of fear to tackle the impossible.

``She`s an exceptional person,`` community relations director Cathy Coleman said of Langdon. ``She`s just like Kate Smith.``

Marilyn Shifferd, the executive director, presented staff awards to Madeline Creedon for 25 years of service, Helen Blow for 15 years of service, and Elinor Peters, Delores Lal, and Helen Owens for 10 years of service. Helen Parsons was named ``employee of the year.``

The latter award is given to someone who wins the quarterly pride and excellence award, given by one`s peers for work done above and beyond the call of duty.

Claude Steelman will exhibit his wildlife photography and share tips at a lecture at 8 p.m. Friday at the South Florida Science Museum.

Steelman, a Florida native, now resides in Colorado and recently completed a Colorado Wildlife Calendar with other photographers.

Admission to his presentation is $3 for adults, $2 for seniors, and $1.50 for children.

Artists and craftspeople are invited to participate in the Poinsettia/ Valentine Clearance Arts and Crafts Festival, sponsored by the Greater Lake Worth Chamber of Commerce and set for Feb. 28, March 1, and 2. The festival will be held at the Palm Springs Plaza at the corner of 10th Avenue North and Congress Avenue. The festival begins each day at 9 a.m. and ends at 5 p.m., with set-up time from 8 to 9 a.m.

The entry fee is $30 for three days, $22 for two days, and $12 for one day.

Application forms are available from the Chamber of Commerce office. For information, call Frank Kohl at 582-4401.

The chamber also will be sponsoring an annual Spring Festival March 7, 8, and 9 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day at Bryant Park in Lake Worth. The entry fee is the same as for the Poinsettia/Valentine Clearance Arts and Crafts Festival.

Those interested in participating should call Kohl.

Ken Keaton, a professor of music at Palm Beach Junior College, has published his own editions of various pieces of music: five works by Napolean Coste and one by Johann Pachelbel. The music was published by the Belwin/Mills Co.

Employees of Marcom Telecommunications Inc. raised $1,100 for The Children`s Place, a shelter for children whose parents are unable to care for them. The funds were raised under the leadership of Fran Oyler, who is not only a senior sales representative for Marcom, but also serves on the board of directors for The Children`s Place.

The money raised will be used to furnish and supply the baby nursery at The Children`s Place.

Six county residents have joined the board of the Palm Beach County Community Foundation and new officers for 1986 were installed at the Foundation`s annual full board meeting.